"Net Newsers", people who are typically under 35, university graduates, and well off, are redefining media habits in the US, by shunning traditional news services, such as newspaper and TV news broadcasts, in favour of sourcing news and information from blogs and online news websites. The biennial Pew Research Center report on changing news audiences described 13% of the US public as "net newsers" - web users under 35 ... Read full entry

Another point-of-view in the ongoing newspapers verses blogs as a source of trustworthy information debate: If online news services want to match the quality and depth of their print counterparts, they will need to hire, quite possibly, the very journalists working for the aforementioned newspapers. If online viewers want the level of news and opinion that print reporters generate, the Internet news services will hire reporters, defraying the cost out ... Read full entry

Renai LeMay has launched bootstrappr a blog that assesses the viability of new Australian start ups, and makes a call as to whether they will boom or go bust. First cab of the rank is a review of Streem, a news aggregation site that invites readers to submit news stories and photos, and makes a small payment should the content be published.

Graphic showing the number of newspaper reporting jobs in the US that have been scaled back recently. The total for 2008 stands at almost 6000 jobs so far. Via Australian Newsagency Blog.

The Cool Hunter launches Fashionation, aggregator of all things fashion and fabulous. Each day we scan the globe's top fashion magazines - from every international edition of influential glossy bibles Vogue and Harpers Bazaar, right through to obscure and cutting edge fashion and pop culture tomes such as Pop, Marmalade, ID and Dutch to unearth the most creative and inspiring work happening in the world right now.

The Falling Times Is the west a decadent civilization in decline? Mouse-over the animations to see the headlines, and decide for yourself. Falling Times refers to the heavy InfoPollution we live in. The InfoSociety has created a new kind of consumer - the InfoConsumer! The most consumed information is the news today. The news has been turning more and more into an entertainment - the Infotainment. The news producers are ... Read full entry

When it was established that I was the only "blogger" at the table the other evening, the assumptions I was a walking font of knowledge on all matters bloggy were not far behind. Mind you some of the questions were interesting, including "do you think blogging will bring about the demise of newspapers?" Now there's something that a lot of people have been talking about for a while, and there's certainly little ... Read full entry

The Thinking Blog: Turkish blogger Ilker Yoldas, hailing from Ankara I believe (had my first cup of apple chai in Ankara!), has just unveiled her newly redesigned blog, complete with a brand new logo. Nice work :) Terri Terri Quite Contrary: is the quite fantastic blog of, you guessed it, Terri. This is no niche, or internet marketing blog though, (can you believe it? ;), but rather a collection ... Read full entry